Card 40 • cups

Five of Cups

Brief Description

The Five of Cups signifies loss, regret, and a melancholic focus on personal heartache following unpleasant changes. It depicts a frozen, uncertain state marked by frustration, ruptured relationships, loss of trust, and remorse. In practical matters it can point to failures in business or study and regret for past actions. Upright it emphasizes regret, bad luck, and grief; reversed it can indicate loneliness, gained experience, or completion.

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Card Name

Five of Cups

Keyword

LOSS

Description

The card deals with unpleasant changes, a frozen and uncertain state. Frustration and loss. Melancholic mood, focus on your own heartache. Rupture of relations, loss of trust, regret for actions. Failures in business or study. Remorse.

Upright

regret, bad luck, grief

Reverse

loneliness, experience, completion

Visual Description

A young man sits at a table with five silver goblets, four lying overturned in a cluster and one standing upright near his hand. He looks down with a somber expression, dark hair falling over his brow. Behind him is a tall arched window with diamond lattice and richly patterned blue floral wallpaper. A red ribbon trails from his hand across the table.

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